Robert Shaw
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
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Custer of the West is a 1967 American epic Western film directed by Robert Siodmak that presents a highly fictionalised version of the life and death of George Armstrong Custer, starring Robert Shaw as Custer, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter, and Mary Ure.
Custer of the West: Directed by Robert Siodmak. With Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter. George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn.
- (1.6K)
- Biography, Drama, History
- Robert Siodmak
- 1967-11-09
Dec 17, 2019 · Custer Of The West - George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big...
- 135 min
- 5M
- Grjngo - Western Movies
Rent Custer of the West on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Gen. George Armstrong Custer (Robert Shaw) offends politicians and ends up with the 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn.
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- Robert Siodmak
- G
- Robert Shaw
After a flamboyantly successful career in the Civil War, young Gen. George Armstrong Custer goes West, accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, to take command of the 7th Cavalry.
The story of U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who later fought and was exterminated with his entire command by warring Sioux and Cheyenne tribes at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.
RELEASED IN 1967 and directed by Robert Siodmak, "Custer of the West" is a French/Spanish/American production starring Robert Shaw as the titular hero who becomes the youngest general in the Civil War at 23 and then goes on to fight in the Indian Wars of the northern plains, eventually dying at the Battle of Little Bighorn at the age of 36.
